...Singers may be, and often are, much cleverer than most people in the ordinary affairs of life; it is only when they come to singing, their especial talent, that they think it necessary to put off intelligence as a garment. Music, so far as the human voice is concerned, consists of melody and rhythm...

...This chapter begins by examining the ways that Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell helped David Foster Wallace overcome the allure of philosophical logic, and allowed him to appreciate the artistic and moral powers of the improvisatory human voice. More persistently than Cavell, however, Wallace...

...This chapter studies Buddhist practices that make use of sound in general and the human voice in particular. These practices are some of the most popular and widespread in the Buddhist world. They often involve saying a short series of syllables over and over. Sometimes these have linguistic...

... and their treatment across their diaries, providing a way of seeing she will follow across her days. Their diaries and others’ supply matter for the compost heap she can transmute into art. Others’ diaries give Woolf access to what she calls the natural human voice. They offer the concert of human voices that she...

... “see” what is “only” to be heard. Thus an uncanny criminology of artificially laid traces is to be predicated on the seductiveness of the disembodied human voice as guiding narrative. Cardiff’s and Miller’s intriguing art form improvises a new way across the ravages of time by inventing new vestiges...

... engagement with radio is important is that it records what many sensed was happening to the human voice. This chapter focuses on how one novel in particular, Richard Wright's Lawd Today!, figures radio in this way. Radio proves a powerful emblem for Wright, giving him a way to express...

...Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have provoked insistent questioning of the distinction between the human voice and the voice of the machine, between genuine and synthetic affect, between the uniqueness...

...This chapter demonstrates the original structure and actual dynamics of Song Yingxing's knowledge presentation. It engages with the physicality of sound in Song's concept of qi, his idea of the human voice, and hearing ability. Song's coherent survey into qi...

...The question of authenticity is relevant to writing about instrumental representations of the human voice. This chapter examines “modality theory,” an approach that asks how “authentic” voices have been represented and not whether they actually are “authentic.” It demonstrates that musical...

...Since the introduction of computer-based systems, there has been a radical transformation in the capture, processing, and placement of the human voice. Today, producers and engineers employ precise digital technology to select, separate, copy, and conjoin all the portions of their compositions...

...-theatrical) as a reaction to fascism and the devastation of the war. This movement was focused on the Darmstadt Summer Courses. The return of the human voice and the influence of Cage can be noted in the works of Stockhausen, Ligeti, Schnebel, and others. Darmstadt began to lose its influence; the events...